mousetrapped

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v. Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains how the CIA under both Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan "mousetrapped" the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan and then kept Soviet forces bogged down.

Aided, abetted, and possibly mousetrapped by untold numbers of quantative analysts, "AKA" quants, many of whom are Chinese nationals, the financial services industry created thousands of new investment vehicles in uncharted waters.

L'Affaire Biden - when the vice president was mousetrapped and humiliated when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem shortly after he arrived in Israel to reaffirm U.S. solidarity with Israel - was dismissed as a mere "spat" by the neoconservative